More from Herman Melville

  1. It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
  2. There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields,…
  3. The truth seems to be, that like many other geniuses, this Man of Mosses takes great delight in hoodwinking the world,-at least, with respe…
  4. From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shal…
  5. I found that but to glean after this man, is better than to be in at the harvest of others.
  6. Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching counte…
  7. Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
  8. What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event-the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a…

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